One point here, you will get lots of attempted email as most spammers
WILL try both MX records. And even a slight bump in the Internet will
send legit email to the backup server as well as some legit mail servers.
Lyle
On 12/01/11 16:02,HIDDEN@@daheezy.net wrote:
> User accounts, passwords, and aliases shouldn't be too bad if you are
> able to use LDAPauth pointed at their Domain Controller. I use it for
> the user accounts and passwords and it works very well.
>
> Since no mail will be delivered to you unless Exchange fails, you won't
> really have to worry about stale data. After fixing the Exchange box and
> resuming normal operations, just purge all the mail and be ready for the
> next failover.
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> On Thursday 12/01/2011 at 3:26 pm, Lyle Giese wrote:
>> On 12/01/11 03:10, Tom Cross wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>> I have had a request from one of our customers that have Exchange on
>>> their "in house" server.
>>> They would like us to be their "Backup", Secondary mail server.
>>>
>>> We are doing this for some other customers at the moment.
>>> Their server goes down, our server, receives the mail until their server
>>> comes back on line.
>>> That is what normally happens.
>>>
>>> This customer wants us to enable them, if their server goes down to be
>>> able to logon with surgeweb and answer mail, untill their server comes
>>> back up????
>>>
>>> Any ideas??
>>>
>>> This is what I was thinking, do not know if it would work.
>>>
>>> Exchange Mail = mail.aaabbb.com.au ip 203.203.203.203
>>> We setup = mail.aaabbb.com ip 203.19.159.244 BUT on that domain we setup
>>> the alias mail.aaabbb.com.au
>>> We would have to get the Exchange server to query the Surgemail server
>>> at periods, because any user on our server sending them mail it would go
>>> into the Surgemail Server.
>>>
>>> Another problem would be syncing passwords.
>>>
>>>
>>> Tom Cross
>>> Partner (Synergist)
>>> HTMLnet
>>> 0418 295 336
>>>HIDDEN@tml.com.au
>>> ** <http://www.html.net.au/>
>>>
>>>
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>> If it was me, I would say, no to acting as a backup mailbox server.
>> You can be their backup MX server, but no access to their mail while
>> their system is down. You can easily store email until their server
>> gets back online.
>>
>> But the issue of syncing mailbox adds/deletes, aliases, groups and
>> passwords is beyond what is reasonably possible. I can not think of
>> any way to automate that process, especially passwords.
>>
>> Lyle Giese
>> LCR Computer Services, Inc.
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